Trump keeps complaining his Manhattan trial is keeping him off the campaign trail, but it’s his own legal strategy that will drag it out [Video]

As the 2024 election is underway, Donald Trump is set to spend the bulk of the next six weeks in downtown Manhattan, far from any swing states.

Trump has griped that his ongoing criminal hush-money trial — for 34 counts of falsifying business documents — is impairing his campaign to recapture the presidency. He has scheduled events across the country on Wednesdays, the one day each week the trial is not scheduled to take place.

“This is a trial that should have never been brought,” the former president told reporters in the courtroom hallway Tuesday morning ahead of the second day of jury selection, adding, “I should be right now in Pennsylvania, in Florida, in many other states, in North Carolina, Georgia, campaigning.”

Trump also has complained to reporters that the judge didn’t immediately rule on his request to take a day off of testimony for his son Barron’s high school graduation ceremony in May.

But there’s one simple way Trump could speed …